Parents' Acceptance of Educational Technology: Lessons From Around the World.

ABSTRACT: One of the long-term lessons from the school closures due to the global pandemic COVID 19, is that technology and parental engagement are the best levers to access education so as to bridge the achievement gap between socially disadvantaged children and their peers. However, using technology is not as simple as bringing equipment into the school and home and initiating its usage; these are just the first steps into a more complex and ambitious achievement of using technology as a catalyst for a shift toward new learning models in remote and hybrid settings. A theoretical framework based on the theory of acceptance and use of technology and social cognitive learning theory was used to analyse data from a survey completed by 4,600 parents from 19 countries during the national lockdowns in 20

SUBMITTER: Osorio-Saez EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8437146 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature